Rice at Texas

Saturday, October 25, 1941

No. 2 Texas beat Rice 40–⁠0. It was their 28th meeting; after it, Texas led the series 18–⁠10.

AwayRice6–⁠3–⁠1 in 1941
0
Home2Texas8–⁠1–⁠1 in 1941
40

FinalHigh 84°F, low 66°FAttendance 42,000

In the newspapers

  • The Detroit evening times's story: Texas II Routs Rice, 40 TO 0

    Detroit evening times, Detroit, Mich, October 26, 1941, page 1

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    Texas II Routs Rice, 40 TO 0 AUSTIN, Tex, Oct 25.-Brilliant football gave Texas a 40 to 0 victory over Rice Institute today, pointing Texas indisputably as one of the nations leading teams. Rice threatened once. penetrating against the second Texas team to the 19-yard line. Coach Bible sent In his first string lineSmen and Rice gave up the ball on the 19-yard line. All three Texas teams played and only the third team, playing in the third quarter, failed to score. The first team was taken out after it established a 1910 lead. The second team was taken out after it ran it up TO n points in the first half, went back in the fourth quarter and scored two more touChdowns.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Texas 78% to win. Elo’s favorite won.

Texas leads 75–⁠21–⁠1 in 97 meetings, counting the 69 since this game.

Recent meetings
2023Texas 37, Rice 10
2021Texas 58, Rice 0
2019Texas 48, Rice 13
2015Texas 42, Rice 28
2011Texas 34, Rice 9
2010Texas 34, Rice 17

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